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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard L. Gallo is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on dermatology and related immunological fields.

The main fields of study covered in Gallo's work include:

  • Medicine

The subfields of study for which they have published extensively are:

  • Dermatology
  • Immunology
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology

The topics most frequently addressed in their research include:

  • Dermatology and Skin Diseases
  • Acne and Rosacea Treatments and Effects
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Skin Protection and Aging
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways

Richard L. Gallo has contributed to a significant number of published papers in various journals, with some of the recent notable publications listed below:

  • Development of a human skin commensal microbe for bacteriotherapy of atopic dermatitis and use in a phase 1 randomized clinical trial, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Obesity alters pathology and treatment response in inflammatory disease, 2022, Nature
  • Standard management options for rosacea: The 2019 update by the National Rosacea Society Expert Committee, 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis protease EcpA can be a deleterious component of the skin microbiome in atopic dermatitis, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • TREM2 macrophages induced by human lipids drive inflammation in acne lesions, 2022, Science Immunology

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Cell Reports
  • Science Immunology
  • Nature Communications

Several co-authors regularly collaborate with Richard L. Gallo, including:

  • Teruaki Nakatsuji
  • Tatsuya Dokoshi
  • Tissa Hata
  • Fengwu Li
  • Alan M. O'Neill

In 2017, Richard L. Gallo was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • The 2011 Report on Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D from the Institute of Medicine: What Clinicians Need to Know

    A. Catharine Ross;Jo Ann E. Manson;Steven A. Abrams;John F. Aloia;John F. Aloia

  • Toll-Like Receptor Triggering of a Vitamin D-Mediated Human Antimicrobial Response

    Philip T. Liu;Steffen Stenger;Huiying Li;Linda Wenzel

  • Endogenous Antimicrobial Peptides and Skin Infections in Atopic Dermatitis

    Peck Y. Ong;Takaaki Ohtake;Corinne Brandt;Ian Strickland

  • AMPed up immunity: how antimicrobial peptides have multiple roles in immune defense

    Yuping Lai;Richard L. Gallo

  • Innate antimicrobial peptide protects the skin from invasive bacterial infection.

    Victor Nizet;Takaaki Ohtake;Takaaki Ohtake;Xavier Lauth;Xavier Lauth;Janet Trowbridge;Janet Trowbridge

  • Biology of the Syndecans: A Family of Transmembrane Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans

    Merton Bernfield;Robert Kokenyesi;Masato Kato;Michael T. Hinkes

  • Skin microbiota: a source of disease or defence?

    A.L. Cogen;V. Nizet;R.L. Gallo

  • Antimicrobials from human skin commensal bacteria protect against Staphylococcus aureus and are deficient in atopic dermatitis

    Teruaki Nakatsuji;Tiffany H. Chen;Saisindhu Narala;Kimberly A. Chun

  • An angiogenic role for the human peptide antibiotic LL-37/hCAP-18

    Rembert Koczulla;Georges von Degenfeld;Christian Kupatt;Florian Krötz

  • Epithelial antimicrobial defence of the skin and intestine

    Richard L. Gallo;Lora V. Hooper

  • Increased serine protease activity and cathelicidin promotes skin inflammation in rosacea

    Kenshi Yamasaki;Anna Di Nardo;Antonella Bardan;Masamoto Murakami

  • Tissue Factor Modulates the Thrombogenicity of Human Atherosclerotic Plaques

    V Toschi;R Gallo;M Lettino;J T Fallon

  • Injury enhances TLR2 function and antimicrobial peptide expression through a vitamin D–dependent mechanism

    Jürgen Schauber;Robert A. Dorschner;Robert A. Dorschner;Alvin B. Coda;Alvin B. Coda;Amanda S. Büchau;Amanda S. Büchau

  • HIF-1α expression regulates the bactericidal capacity of phagocytes

    Carole Peyssonnaux;Vivekanand Datta;Thorsten Cramer;Andrew Doedens

  • Commensal bacteria regulate toll-like receptor 3-dependent inflammation after skin injury

    Yuping Lai;Anna Di Nardo;Anna Di Nardo;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Anke Leichtle;Anke Leichtle

  • Tight junction defects in patients with atopic dermatitis.

    Anna De Benedetto;Nicholas M. Rafaels;Laura Y. McGirt;Andrei I. Ivanov

  • The antimicrobial peptide cathelicidin protects the urinary tract against invasive bacterial infection.

    Milan Chromek;Zuzana Slamová;Peter Bergman;László Kovács

  • Cutaneous Injury Induces the Release of Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptides Active Against Group A Streptococcus

    Robert A. Dorschner;Vasumati K. Pestonjamasp;Seema Tamakuwala;Takaaki Ohtake

  • Glycosaminoglycans and their proteoglycans: host-associated molecular patterns for initiation and modulation of inflammation

    Kristen R. Taylor;Richard L. Gallo

  • Rapamycin inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell migration.

    M Poon;S O Marx;R Gallo;J J Badimon

  • Inhibition of intimal thickening after balloon angioplasty in porcine coronary arteries by targeting regulators of the cell cycle.

    Richard Gallo;Adrian Padurean;Thottala Jayaraman;Steven Marx

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Kenshi Yamasaki
Kenshi Yamasaki Tohoku University
Donald Y.M. Leung
Donald Y.M. Leung National Jewish Health
Harvey D. White
Harvey D. White Auckland City Hospital
Juan J. Badimon
Juan J. Badimon Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Richard D. Granstein
Richard D. Granstein Cornell University
James H. Chesebro
James H. Chesebro University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Lisa A. Beck
Lisa A. Beck University of Rochester Medical Center
Jon M. Hanifin
Jon M. Hanifin Oregon Health & Science University
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver

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